Tuesday, August 06, 2013

95 Theses for Christian Racial & Ethnic Unity: #9

“For much of my early life, I [John
Perkins] was part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s. As I
pondered the problems of oppression, discrimination and poverty, I began to see
that justice is really a stewardship issue. It has to do with how we manage
the earth God gave to Adam—and to us—to subdue. It is also an educational
issue. We need to acquire the skills, the wherewithal, to use those gifts God
has given us to manage the earth in a way that enhances lives and brings about
justice. Ultimately, justice is an economic issue, because that is how we
implement what we have learned in order to be good stewards of this planet,
which includes every human being. Since we are assigned to care for and be
blessed by the earth, injustice is to deprive any other person from open access
to this creation; to disallow them from reaching their full potential in life;
to subjugate, deprive or exploit them. That’s injustice.”